Common Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“His work killed the poet Because he called it complete. After it nothing else could be said.”

— Marne L. Kilates

“The greatest poet hardly knows pettiness or triviality. If he breathes into any thing that was before thought small it dilates with the grandeur…

— Walt Whitman

“He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where,…

— George MacDonald

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.

— Plato

“He showed, in a few words, that it is not sufficient to throw together a few incidents that are to be met with in…

— Voltaire

The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches for his soul, he inspects…

— Arthur Rimbaud

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except…

— Anonymous

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

— George Eliot

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

— T. S. Eliot